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I just realized the only thing I use Bluesky for is #fabtcg news

The only time sink has been disruption for me is when I use it and the next card is worse.

Much like adding stripes and wings to old beater cars, adding foil to commons is good for at least 5 … something.

Looks like Night Tapes is coming to Austin. Unfortunately on Halloween so I can’t go due to playing a set.

Probably just as well bc with my luck they’d play Leave it All Behind, Mike and I’d ruin my makeup.

4 strip comic. first frame, we see Horst Wessel and two other storm troopers carrying a large nazi flag. text reads : Horst Wessel was a young storm trooper recognized as a skilled public speaker by the nazi party. he also wrote the song that became the partys anthem and german co-national anthem until 1945. second frame, we see a portrait of Horst. text reads : in 1930, his landlady hired two men who happened to be communists to evict him over unpaid rent and alleged proxenetism. He died in the fight. thrid frame, we see Goebbels speaking in front of a large crowd. text reads : Goebbels, the nazi chief propagandist, had been looking for someone to turn into a christian martyr for the party and drum up enrollment. he turned wessel's funeral into a major propaganda event full of speeches antagonizing leftists. fourth frame, we see the State Farm Stadium with a large banner advertizing Charlie Kirk's funeral. text reads : thinking about him today for no particular reason.

No particular reason

In a utopian alternate reality, the library format used by dj flash drives has been standardized and venues run equipment made by a variety of manufacturers, not just Pioneer/AT.

You know, kind of like how records tend to work on any turntable.

Burning your popcorn is a good way to make sure you don’t eat the whole thing.

Or at least it helps.

Sometimes I post the most unhinged shit on Reddit and think about how there’s more than enough info on there to doxx me, and the only thing standing in the way is the flimsiest of auto generated usernames.

But are we suuuuuure he wasn’t trans?

Also not me getting impatient and eating it frozen.

Not me over here in my bedroom thawing a frozen uncrustable with a heating pad.

Oooo transphobic, I was not aware of that. That’s a deal killer for me. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Finally, after all these years, I think I finally properly *get* Stoneproof - Everything’s Not You.

Maybe that’ll get back in the trance rotation now.

Records are for playing. Each time you listen to a record, it’s a unique experience because each play wears both the media and stylus. You will never hear the same record exactly the same way twice.

That’s what makes them special to me. Records have a lifespan and I get to be a part of it.

As a DJ, I’ve always felt like records are for playing. For me, they’re tools. They’re meant to be played. I used to often buy two of the ones I liked best specifically because I knew one was going to get destroyed by cue burn.

That’s obviously an extreme case but my point still stands.

That’s fine, of course. I have records I only look at (a flexi disc made as a rave promo and a 1/33 lathe cut The Black Dog 7” — *flexxxx* 😁).

I just wish more of the new buyers were buying them for listening.

New records *do* tend to sound pretty clean these days.

I’m guessing neither, tbh.

These are a product for people that like to look at records, the people that expect all records to be colorful and hung on the wall as art.

So who is the target audience for these adorable tiny records?

Is it the absolute beginner with the cheapest turntable they could find?

Or is it the intermediate-to-advanced consumer that would normally be more interested in playing a 12” (or even 7”) that sounds better?

Fully manual decks tend to either be low quality suitcase decks (lots of Crosley mess) or more expensive stuff meant for people who’ve had more experience with vinyl.

Tiny 3”-4” vinyl is going to be tricky to play for a lot of people.

Automatic turntables will no play these things under normal conditions. At best you’ll get a few seconds and it will reset the arm.

This makes them unplayable on one of the most accessible but good beginner decks: the AT-LP60X.

Tiny Vinyl is a new pocketable record format for the Spotify age Format is “more aligned with how artists are making and releasing music in the streaming era.”…

Ok so artists at now releasing tracks on 3”-4” vinyl. Cute right? It’s the music you love on little baby records!

Except how does one listen to these?

arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025...

I fucking love Jasmine Crockett.

That is all.

Y’all I just played the same lineup as Hixxy.

Fuck yeah.

THIS IS NOT NORMAL

I expect anti-trans action will just accelerate due to this. More laws will be passed. Anti-trans hate crimes will increase. Tbh very few things have made me afraid to leave the house in Austin but depending on how this goes, it may be the thing to do it.

And yet how many of you heard of the Target shooter? I’m willing to bet very few. The media doesn’t cover those nearly as much. And yet when one trans person does it, the media and transphobes latch onto it and will no doubt milk it for all it’s worth.

The statistics clearly show that the vast majority (98% since 1970) of these are perpetrated by cis men. Of those, 95% are cis male.

Nevermind that even in the last few weeks a cis white male with known mental health problems and a history of violence shot 3 people at a Target, one of whom was a trans employee.

God effing dammit why did that shooter have to be trans. 😭

And naturally that’s what everyone is going to latch onto. Not that two innocent children are dead, but that the shooter was trans.